By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lovers of
bourekas, one of Israel’s national foods, had better brush up on their geometry. The Chief Rabbinate has issued
new guidelines on the shapes of the pastry pockets — and no, we’re not kidding.
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By Renee Ghert-Zand
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange stole my intended headline for this post:
“The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil.’” Or maybe it was a New York Times copy editor, who gave that title to Assange’s opinion piece accusing Google of technocratic imperialism. Either way, now I can’t use it for fear of plagiarism… or at least, a perceived lack of creativity.
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By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman
has been appointed Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, which is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary season.
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By Renee Ghert-Zand
Had Jack Lebewohl of the legendary
2nd Ave Deli been competing yesterday in the final round of 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, he would have lost to the
winner, 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali. The Jewish food maven would have misspelled the winning word: ‘knaidel’.
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By Renee Ghert-Zand
It’s all because he looked up one day during services and noticed a crack in the ceiling of
Congregation Emanu-El that Major General (ret.) Ed Fitch, an engineer with the
Canadian Forces, ended up spearheading the
150th anniversary celebrations for the Victoria, British Columbia synagogue. Emanu-El is Canada’s oldest synagogue building still standing and still in use as a synagogue, and Fitch intends to ensure that it stands for another century and a half.
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